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1867 October 20 . AL to [Sarah A. Bennet]; New Point, Indiana

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Box 4
Abstract:
Quotes from an article published in the Liberty Herald on June 5, 1867, relating to Ambrose Colston's death following a train accident. Copies Mary Louisa Chitwood's (1832-1856) poem, "To the Memory of a Friend." Had been uncertain whether he could survive another winter, but has now turned eighty and health is improving. Notes the household labor he can still perform and the help he receives from other residents in his house. Family news, including infant deaths and Ambrose's train accident. "I cant get along with this for I am blind with tears." New Point lacks a church. "... it is a young place we have preaching fr[e]quently but I cant here it we have a sabath school but not the interist taken in it that there should be." Received a religious paper. Portions of the letter written on small scraps of paper.
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